Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Confederate Uniforms. [ARTICLE]

Confederate Uniforms.

Though the regulation uniforms of the Confederate army were gray, the dose of the war found nearly all of the men and some of the officers wearing homespun suits of various colors, or, at least, of various shades of gray. Socalled "butternut" suits were greatly in vogue, whole regiments being thus uniformed. Some of the uniform cloth wall got from England on blockade runaers; some was made at the woolen mills sratt'oredjhere and there through tin* South, and a great <leal was the pr.Mjuct of hand looms, worked by the women of the South. There was a "cadet gray” cloth, very tine and soft, which was made at the Crenshaw woolen factory in Richmond.